“the theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“Before you can write a single sentence, you must first create an entire world to support it.” — Adam Santo Copy Share Image
“he smiled at her as though he had not with a single sentence blown the sane structure of her life into slithering… — Laura London Copy Share Image
“What kind of writer are you?” You can’t think of a single sentence that would satisfy Hyong-chol. Your” — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
A single sentence spoken at the right time could change someones life forever. A little encouragement can go a long way. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians… — John Olsen Copy Share Image
If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's also obsessiveness. I'll spend a lot of time working on a single sentence, debating over a dash or a colon, etc.… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence,… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play… — Max Levchin Copy Share Image
What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“If the attitude of many non-Catholic modern philosophers toward Catholic thought could be summarized in a single sentence, it would be: It… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“We began our hospital visits: one day Susan, one day me, everyday The Big Hoom. On one of these visits, she told… — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
'They fell in love.' Such a rare and special event cannot be done justice by one statement; it involves so much more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Diamond writes, can be summarized in a single sentence: “History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples’ environments,… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“I was gradually coming to have a mysterious and shuddery reverence for this girl; nowadays whenever she pulled out from the station… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There once was this girl she loved a boy..she knew since elementary...she adored him she thought everything about him was perfect..no matter… — Kaitlyn Garber Copy Share Image
“Allan realised it was only a matter of time before he and Herbert were stopped along the road and checked out properly.… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“Did you hear about the middle Eastern potentate?" he asked me. "This potentate called a meeting of the wise men in the… — A.J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“If you think that it would be impossible to improve upon the Ten Commandments as a statement of morality, you really owe… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“One federal law makes it a crime “to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase any fish or wildlife or plant… — James Duane Copy Share Image
“Two kisses in one kiss was all it took, a comfort, a warmth, perhaps temporary, perhaps false, but reassuring nonetheless, and mine,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting. — Malik Bendjelloul Copy Share Image
“Maybe the only way you really know you love someone is it they can break you with a single sentence.” — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And… — Silas House Copy Share Image